Census Reports - Option to use Marrige date in lieu of Birth Date

[EmmArrBee]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. On the Census tab of v10.0.0. Beta 2, there are two related options (1) "Exclude individuals over the age of <90>" with the ability to adjust the age (2) a tick box to "Exclude individuals with unknown birth dates"

I tend to avoid using the second option.

The current behaviour seems to relate the first option to a birth entry. But I have many extended family family members who might only have a marriage entry. That marriage entry offers an indication to their birth date, yes they might be 115 years old at marriage, but they are unlikely to younger than, say 15.

Describe the solution you'd like In the absence of a birth date, provide an option to use the date of marriage minus a user adjustable value (with default 15) as a proxy for their date of birth and then additionally exclude those individuals from the appropriate Census Date reports if they haven't yet been born.

Describe alternatives you've considered

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[ShammyLevva]

The more flexible option is probably to use the existing calculation of Loose Birth date as a proxy for birth date where no exact birth date exists. Similarly it could use loose death dates to narrow down likely alive dates. As you say this is probably a better more intuitive thing than the ignore unknown dates, which was added to exclude the large number of erroneous census entries caused by blank birth dates.

So possibly replace the exclude unknown with a Use Loose Date calculations to estimate if someone is alive on census. Or add this as an additional option in case others do use the unknown option regularly.